5.6 The Rock Cycle

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Vocabulary:

Rock cycle-A process that changes rock from one to another

Outline

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The rock cycle

• A cycle of many pathways
  • Forces may change rock in many ways
• One Pathway Through the rock cycle
  • Many things may happen when water and weather acts with rock
• The rock cycle and the plate tectonics
  • Subducting Oceanic Plates
  • Colliding Continental Plates
    • Colliding may result in rocks turning into metamorphic rocks